User talk:Jon Awbrey~enwikibooks

Welcome
Welcome to Wikibooks, Jon Awbrey!

Discussion
Please do not link so excessively on your userpage; you have been warned previously of this issue. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 19:11, 8 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Mike, the content that I placed on my User Page was a fairly standard sort of web vita, designed to serve as a self-introduction, and it is no way, shape, or form reasonable to describe it as "self-promotion", "SPAM", or "vanity spam" in any way that might constitute a Conflict Of Interest (COI) with the mission of this project. It is not very nice to use pejorative terms like that to describe a thoroughly innocuous and friendly introduction to a user's potentially relevant interests and background.  And it is not a good thing to use those terms in ways that depart so far from their ordinary and technical usage, as this tends to give other people reading what you wrote the wrong idea.


 * Now, I asked you before to show me the Terms of Service or Generally Acknowledged Community Standard that would prohibit the inclusion of such a self-introduction on my User Page, and you did not do so. Indeed, it is fairly clear from looking around WMF sites that there can be no such Standard, unless you use that to mean a "Rule" that just about everyone, including yourself, ignores.  But it is hardly Fair to apply a "Rule" to selected individuals when the same "Rule" does not apply to everyone.  JonAwbrey (talk) 03:00, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid you're mistaken; my userpage has no self-promotional links. Further, if you have concerns about other users creating unacceptable userpages across many wikis, you are free to raise the issue as appropriate. There is clear consensus that you need to stop; please do so. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 01:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Jon Awbrey. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Jon Awbrey~enwikibooks that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:17, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:05, 19 April 2015 (UTC)